How can people just sit back when over 9,000 children die of starvation every day?

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BornInMarch said:
The reason people sit indifferent to the starving of 9000 children is the same reason why people sat indifferent to the Genocides of Rwanda, Bosnia, Nazi-Occupied Poland, Ottoman-Controlled Armenia, and British-Controlled Ireland.

Because it’s not happening to “us”, it’s happening to “them”. It’s harder to care about what happens to those outside of one’s individual group because those others are seen as different and therefore less important.

This can be seen in news; whenever there is a big debate over “should we let these refugees in” or “should we intervene in this country”, everyone seems to focus only on how this affects the US. During the debate over whether or not to intervene in Iraq, Saddam Hussein mustard-gassing his own people was a footnote at best and utterly forgotten at worst. During the Vietnam War, the atrocities of The North Vietnamese and The Vietcong were utterly ignored. Did you know there is a Genocide going on Right Now in The Congo? It does not effect The US, so nobody here cares.

The trick is to redefine your entire group as including all of humanity. Because ALL humans matter.
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No comparison. In the 1950s, Evangelist Billy Graham urged President Eisenhower to do something with the nation’s surplus wheat. International corporations who sell food know there are starving people and they know where they are. In the US, farmers are paid billions of dollars in farm subsidies to grow nothing. Because if 100 million bushels of corn is all that is sold in a year then growing another million bushels would drive the price of corn down, hurting profits.

And who would pay to transport, prepare and distribute food, at no cost, to people who are malnourished in the US?

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edwest2 said:
I have to strongly disagree. There are many, many individuals who do as they were taught. To help people without bragging about it. There are many charitable groups.

catholiccharitiesusa.org/

crs.org/our-work-overseas/where-we-work/africa

It’s easy to think needs are not being met but I encourage you to look at what is being done.

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Ed
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Why does the starvation persist if everybody is helping? Why does the problem persist if everybody is helping and being vocal? It should be a strong political issue worldwide. Virtually nobody raises starvation as a social issue.
 
Robert_Sock said:
Why does the starvation persist if everybody is helping? Why does the problem persist if everybody is helping and being vocal? It should be a strong political issue worldwide. Virtually nobody raises starvation as a social issue.
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One word is your answer: sin.
 
edwest2 said:
I encourage you to look at what is being done globally. The problem persists because foreign aid workers are killed, their food and trucks stolen and sometimes taxes are imposed by some foreign countries for the importation of food due to greed or so as to not have the food reach the current “enemy.”

who.int/trade/glossary/story028/en/

usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=food-security

Ed
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Supposedly, as stated by the President of The World Bank, we will have an end to extreme poverty by the year 2030, which sounds a bit optimistic.
 
Robert_Sock said:
Supposedly, as stated by the President of The World Bank, we will have an end to extreme poverty by the year 2030, which sounds a bit optimistic.
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There’s going to have to be significant changes in leadership of a number of countries throughout the world before there can be an end to extreme poverty. I doubt that the “President of the World Bank” has the kind of authority needed to bring that about.
 
Robert_Sock said:
Do you believe that not helping out in some way, even from prayer, is sinful?
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Yes I do. Most people don’t give it a second thought. Or they think that it is too bad but… or they feel there is nothing they can do about it.

Of course there are many, many people who volunteer time, energy, money, talents and prayer to the poor and starving.

I don’t see why people here are taking offense at your question. Either wecare or we don’t, and if we care we should try our hardest to do something about it. At this point I give monthly to Catholic Relief Services.
 
CHRISTINE77 said:
Yes I do. Most people don’t give it a second thought. Or they think that it is too bad but… or they feel there is nothing they can do about it.

Of course there are many, many people who volunteer time, energy, money, talents and prayer to the poor and starving.

I don’t see why people here are taking offense at your question. Either wecare or we don’t, and if we care we should try our hardest to do something about it. At this point I give monthly to Catholic Relief Services.
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